Other judges of the Fourth district have been: Anthony Van Wagenen, Rock
Rapids, Lyon County, 1892-94.

Standardized Rural Schools

The standardized rural school law passed by the
Thirty-eighth General Assembly marked a turning point in Iowa's educational policy, for it
was the first time that the body had recognized the necessity and the desirability of
extending direct financial aid and encouragement to the one-room rural school.

During the school year 1923-23 rural schools located in
ninety-four counties were standardized.

County--Lyon--No. of Schools 9--6-Months Pupils 202.

Enrollment and Average Daily Attendance

Those matters which are most intimately related to the
development of education in Northwestern Iowa have been traced, and of times, specific
mention made of the useful participation of that section of the state in the general
progress of institutions and measures in vital educational growth. The total enrollment in
the ninety-nine counties of the state of those of school age, five to twenty-one years,
was for the school year 1923-24, 561,873 and the average daily attendance, 449,391. The
twenty counties of Northwestern Iowa coveresd by this history made the following showing:

At Doon, "Bonnie Doon," in a new community on a
new road, Congregationalism proved to be the "solvent of the sects," although
the sects outnumber the Congregational stock three or four to one. It is said that
Congregationalism rode into Hawarden on the cow-catcher of the first train. A church
building and the round-house went up together. Ionia starting out with ninety-five
members, was the result of an evangelistic campaign conducted by Rev. N.L. Packard of
Nashua. He was called to attend a funeral in the community, and turned the service into an
evangelistic meeting. The meetings went on until this number were ready for church
membership. Later he added two other churches, Bassett and Chickasaw, by a like series of
meetings held in these communities.

Larchwood was the name of a twenty-two thousand acre farm
owned by Sir Richard Sykes of Manchester, England. At the first service held on the farm,
by Secretary Douglass, he gave out what to him were familiar hymns, but to his surprise,
English carols, utterly foreign to Iowa soil, were sung. The church, however, has since
been annexed to the United States, and has become just like the rest of us.

Source: The Pilgrims of
Iowa by Truman O. Douglass 1911.

Provided by Roseanna
Zehner

Petit Jurors

Following are the Petit Jurors for the April term of Court, which
convenes on the 8th: